On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 11:08, Thomas Ritter wrote: > Am Montag, 3. Februar 2003 19:11 schrieb Svein Ove Aas: > >> > Good Web browsers can ignore colors and such in the HTML. > >> > >> Is there any? Not Mozilla, not Netscape, not Konqueror, not Opera... > > It's perfectly possible to make it apply a custom CSS file to all pages, > > oh, yes... but have you ever actually _used_ that? This Thread started about > aesthetics (different meanings of correctly wrapping lines in ASCII) and HTML > was mentioned to raise the look. When you apply custom settings to HTML > pages, they get really ugly, loosing readability. Think of > pixel-measure-sized tables layouted with very small font sizes which get > totally messed up when you change the font size. So turn the setting off. > When users use colours to structurize documents, it gets confusing without > colours. I've never seen that one. > When users use images as dividers, not displaying them messes up readability. When users use images as dividers, the <img> tag usually includes size parameters. If image display is disabled, the placeholder should be (and usually is) rendered with the appropriate size. > You _can_ actually ignore some things, but because people _will_ use those > things anyone caring about readability will have to be a slave of other > people's bad taste and live with green text on pink background and that when > you are in the office and open the mail program to ask someone about > something he wrote, the first thing he might see is the newest SPAM-devilered > nakedness in your inbox. This doesn't look very professional, as you might > agree... Actually, come to think of it, I've never seen an HTML email I care about (i.e., not spam) that's unreadable without images, either. Alex. -- PGP Public Key: http://aoi.dyndns.org/~alex/pgp-public-key -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s:++ a18 C++(++++)>$ UL+++(++++) P--- L+++>++++ E---- W+(+++) N- o-- K+ w--- !O M(+) V-- PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP+(+++) t* 5-- X-- R tv b- DI D+++ G e h! !r y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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